<p>Indore: The district court here has declared that 6.7 acres of the Karbala Maidan grounds in Indore city is not a Waqf property but belongs to the municipal corporation.</p><p>The civic body has won a "historic legal battle" that was going on since 1979, said Mayor Pushyamitra Bhargava.</p><p>A civil court had, in 2019, dismissed the corporation's plea seeking to stop illegal occupation of Karbala Maidan, against which a revision application was filed in the district court, he told reporters.</p>.Didn't wish to get late for b'day party: BMW rams into scooter in MP's Indore, kills 2 women.<p>The Madhya Pradesh Waqf Board, Karbala Maidan Committee and others from the Muslim side were respondents, he said.</p><p>"The respondents have failed to prove that the suit property is a waqf property," district judge Narsingh Baghel said in his judgment passed on September 13.</p><p>The municipal corporation had argued that as per the Indore Municipal Act of 1909, and Madhya India Municipality Act of 1917 -- which were in operation during the rule of the Holkars before Independence -- and the Municipal Act of 1956, the ownership of all open lands, barring government and private properties, is vested in the civic body.</p>.<p>The defendants submitted that the erstwhile Holkar rulers had earmarked the land for immersion of Tazias during Muharram, and a mosque also stands there.</p><p>The Muslim community was in continuous possession of the land for nearly 200 years, they argued.</p><p>But the court accepted the municipal corporation's argument while holding that only a part of the land is being used for the last 150 years for immersion of Tazias. </p>
<p>Indore: The district court here has declared that 6.7 acres of the Karbala Maidan grounds in Indore city is not a Waqf property but belongs to the municipal corporation.</p><p>The civic body has won a "historic legal battle" that was going on since 1979, said Mayor Pushyamitra Bhargava.</p><p>A civil court had, in 2019, dismissed the corporation's plea seeking to stop illegal occupation of Karbala Maidan, against which a revision application was filed in the district court, he told reporters.</p>.Didn't wish to get late for b'day party: BMW rams into scooter in MP's Indore, kills 2 women.<p>The Madhya Pradesh Waqf Board, Karbala Maidan Committee and others from the Muslim side were respondents, he said.</p><p>"The respondents have failed to prove that the suit property is a waqf property," district judge Narsingh Baghel said in his judgment passed on September 13.</p><p>The municipal corporation had argued that as per the Indore Municipal Act of 1909, and Madhya India Municipality Act of 1917 -- which were in operation during the rule of the Holkars before Independence -- and the Municipal Act of 1956, the ownership of all open lands, barring government and private properties, is vested in the civic body.</p>.<p>The defendants submitted that the erstwhile Holkar rulers had earmarked the land for immersion of Tazias during Muharram, and a mosque also stands there.</p><p>The Muslim community was in continuous possession of the land for nearly 200 years, they argued.</p><p>But the court accepted the municipal corporation's argument while holding that only a part of the land is being used for the last 150 years for immersion of Tazias. </p>